Power
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From  Optimum PowerSustaining Our Power Over Time From: Power |
This chapter makes the case that we humans are capable of controlling our thirst for power, and we have a long history of doing so. Moreover, that capacity is rooted in similar behavior expressed … | Richard Heinberg | 51 | 2021 | $5.10 Add |
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From  A theory of the deep stateFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft introuces the concepts of institutional capture and deep state and links them together to outline a theory of the deep state, as background for a … | Kevin Taft | 16 | 2017 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Bourgeoisie, Aristocracy, Church, and Socialists Confront War and Revolution |
Of an apparently unavoidable Great War, the industrial bourgeoisie expects considerable economic advantages. But the other pillars of the elite, the nobility and the church, also entertain high … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 14 | 2016 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Connecting Class and Class Consciousness: The Acid Test |
The primary focus in this chapter is on connections of employment class with these oppositional and hegemonic/revolutionary forms of class consciousness. If class existence in the production … | D.W. Livingstone | 49 | 2023 | $4.90 Add |
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From  Mussolini the Condottiere and StatesmanWas the Duce a great leader? |
This chapter looks at Mussolini as a leader and soldier, and looks at the not-so-glorious reality of Fascist Italy’s military achievements. It discusses Italy’s colonial aspirations … | Francesco Filippi | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From The Future of PowerLearning to Live Happily Within Limits From: Power |
In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint. | Richard Heinberg | 63 | 2021 | $6.30 Add |
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From  The Social Aspects of ChoiceParticipation in Decision Making From: The Power Manual |
The Social Aspects of Choice, focuses on how choice is informed by one’s environment and how one participates in collective choice. I highlight what I found most important about Carole … | Cyndi Suarez | 10 | 2018 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Capitalism, Globalism, and the Nation-State |
- | Murray Knuttila; Wendee Kubik | 22 | 2000 | $2.20 Add |
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From Fear and Tensions in the Belle Époque |
Early 1900s. The elite is convinced that the revolutionary danger is increasing rapidly, and also feels threatened by the revolutionary plans of ethnic minorities, by the designs of feminists, … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 13 | 2016 | $1.30 Add |
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From Mussolini the HumanitarianWas the Duce a "benign" dictator? |
This chapter challenges the notion that Mussolini "wasn’t that bad" as a man and in comparison to other fascist leaders such as Adolf Hitler. It explores Mussolini’s racist, … | Francesco Filippi | 35 | 2021 | $3.50 Add |
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From Oil and the deep stateFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft analyzes how an economy heavily dependent on oil production sets the stage for a deep state with examples from around the world. | Kevin Taft | 10 | 2017 | $1.00 Add |
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From Supreme ChoiceMastery Over Inner Experience From: The Power Manual |
Supreme Choice, furthers the thinking on Supreme Power introduced in chapter 5. It concludes the section on choice by asserting that one ultimately has choice over everything one experiences. It … | Cyndi Suarez | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: This Time Is Different |
Livingstone discusses the current unprecedented chance to create a better world and breaks down the ingredients of most effective major social change processes: critique and protest; an … | D.W. Livingstone | 45 | 2023 | $4.50 Add |
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From NEW! Appendices |
Livingstone reviews some of the surveys discussed in previous chapters. | D.W. Livingstone | 6 | 2023 | $0.60 Add |
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From Reactionary and Bellicose Policies |
Early 1900s. The tension becomes unbearable, and the elite becomes more and more convinced that only war is the definitive solution of the social problem — and of many other problems. There … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 24 | 2016 | $2.40 Add |
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From Rites of PassageSelf Formation in Liminal Space From: The Power Manual |
Rites of Passage, highlights Victor Turner’s thinking on liminality, the space of transformation, the ritual of transitioning from one state to another. One leaves behind previous … | Cyndi Suarez | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
